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Alternative to Herbicide use: Lake Associations, HOA, and Lake Boards are you tired of paying for expensive herbicide and/or chemical treatments without good results? How bad are the weeds still after 2 or 3 treatments a year? Do you get a lot of decay, or mass of floating vegetation that will settle to the lake bottom, and a lot that will wash up onto the resident's shorelines? This is adding to your problem each year providing more nutrients, for weed growth, ruining fish spawning beds, and creating a mucky bottom. Why do think they have warning labels on herbicide treatments, use your own common sense. Use alternative methods to herbicides, weed harvesting, hydrocracking, and dredging these are all very healthy alternative methods to herbicide treatment. Think about this for example, during Weed Harvesting you are, cutting the vegetation from the lake, leaving the stem at the bottom (good for fish) and when you remove the bulk of the plant you are instantly opening waterways (not waiting for it to decompose), taking nutrients out of the lake--a healthy balance. But with a herbicide, it can decompose the plants, and add to your future weed growth problem, creating muck and nutrients. Think about it, you may have once had a clean sandy lake bottom with little weed growth. As you use more herbicides/chemicals, you decompose the vegetation, this is going to go somewhere, and then it can start to cover your once-clean areas, with a layer of decomposed organics over time. Weeds are going to grow in this area now because of the abundant organics (good soil) that may once have limited weed growth. Also be very careful, too much-decomposed vegetation in a body of water after a herbicide treatment can and has caused "fish kills", in a lot of states. Especially in a year like this year, you are better off Weed Harvesting and removing the mass of the aquatic vegetation, when you have large amounts of vegetation within the water. Late summer and Fall, are a good time for Aquatic Weed Harvest - don't let all the vegetation decompose for next year's growth. Otherwise, if you treat a large amount of vegetation with a herbicide, going into the end of summer, fall, and leading into winter: once the plant starts to decompose it takes valuable oxygen to help the decomposition process, which can take away from the fish/aquatic life. But for example, if you have a lot of vegetation at the end of the summer, or fall (which is coming soon): you are better off Weed Harvesting and removing the mass of the vegetation, rather than allowing it to decompose within your lake, which can be harmful going into the winter months, you don't want to end up with a big fish kill, come spring. Seeing fish all over your shorelines. Call us today and try something eco-friendly.

Now we are looking for clients with dredging concerns and milfoil, curly leaf pond weed, and other aquatic vegetation problems in Northern states. If you have an overabundance of lake weeds on your waterway, please email us and tell us of your situation. Do you and your neighbors have a hard time getting your boats in/out of your dock because the aquatic weeds are too thick? Do the lake weeds make it difficult to enjoy fishing, boating, swimming, or the view? Please tell us of your situation, which lake you're on, and if you know of others in your area that have a similar problem.